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The Roy Thomas reprints of Phantom lady and Planet are good...he did other stuff too.  

Very nice. And great pictures. I would actually go 9.2. hard to tell though without holding it in hand. I would be very surprised if you got 9.6

I came to the same conclusion. 5.0. Lots of color loss on the spine.

From Heritage a couple weeks ago....got the whole run. This book is full of Russ Heath art.

What do you guys think of this one? Baker cover as the seller suggests, or not?

 

 

I am no expert...but looks like Baker to me.

 

Not Baker at all. The girl is taken from a Fox cover, I can't remember which. (paging Dr. Love). Baker never did any work for Fox.

 

Baker never did any romance work for Fox.

I'd be curious to know which cover....just went through most of the Fox covers on comics.org and didn't see it. Might have missed it, but pretty sure not.

What do you guys think of this one? Baker cover as the seller suggests, or not?

 

I am no expert...but looks like Baker to me.

Here are my two Firestone Donald and Mickey Christmas comics that I just picked up. All Barks inside!

It is pretty cheap to buy into DV#3. Series is well written and price can jump to Walking Dead levels if characters are introduced in a future movie.

First off...an earlier poster was correct on print run...about 85000...so around 3400 for the variant.

As to the quote above, WD #1 was a 7000 print run. I doubt this book will go there, but hey, anything is possible in this hobby when high grade Batman Adventures 12 is going for over $1000.

Maybe this has already been discussed...apologies if so.

This book is going for anywhere from cover to $15 on eBay. Does anyone out there really think it will actually be worth something someday when there are roughly 300,000 copies in print?? I suppose it's possible...but I sort of doubt it.

It was a pretty good story and I do like the new character(s). the death dealing droids are weirdly fun...especially the C-3P0 look alike.

Any thoughts?

I also fold one end of each piece of tape over to form a tab (on every single piece of tape used in the package), and mark out where to open. This isn’t because I think the recipient has issues, it’s just helpful. I hate scratching a pieces of tape stuck to cardboard for half an hour.

Bravo...finally, someone who understands that the books WILL BE UN-packed!!

Thank you.

Name one person who went broke buying key books and selling them 20 years later

For what it's worth...I started collecting in 1985. Bought and sold a lot of books since. I have not made money on every book. But to your point...with Hulk 181, GS XMen1, HOS92, etc...especially right when CGC started...I did rather well. Pretty much every EC book in my collection was bought from the proceeds of a Hulk 181 that got a 9.6 around 2001.

Those days are gone though. When CGC first started, it really was a killer arbitrage opportunity.

By the way....enjoying a Manhattan made with Noilly vermouth, Luxardo cherries, and Bulleit bourbon tonight (not my regular choice for a Manhattan...but it worked)

I would buy the earliest pre 1954 Batman book that you can. Any condition VG or higher. Short of that...any pre-1954 super-hero. Short of that...any sci-fi EC. Whatever it is...stay pre-1954. After that...stuff is just too common.

My two cents.

The Comic Bug. Two locations, but I go to the one in Manhattan Beach when I am there on business. Great store.

Just got this in the mail...from Heritage a week or two ago.

And another recent acquisition

Sorry the scan is a little funny...not sure what happened there.

Picked this up at a recent HA sale but didn't post here yet.

Awesome collection! I had never heard of "Paul" books. There is always more to learn in this hobby...I love it!

FF 75 in 9.8 http://ebay.to/1xgzjV4

I remember when I bought my copy of this. I was a new collector. The copy was pretty crisp and in really nice shape, or so I thought. I found out later that the lower staple was detached. This was about 25 years ago...lesson learned...always pull the book out of the bag!

This copy is amazing...a survivor in this grade.

Unslabbed...looks to be about a 4.0 to me. Got $356 on eBay in November (I know...that was a while ago...but it's the only one that sold in the last few months as far as I can tell)

http://ebay.to/1F3Ny5x

Any thoughts on grade here? Went for $5801. I suspect the buyer will restore it...at least, I probably would. http://ebay.to/1D7DhpP

Found these recently...

Yeah, and may a rumour surface one day about that mythic truckload of longboxes stuffed with crisp NM Actions 1's ...

well it will likely turn out that it was sailed in from Asia (freshly minted ).

 

Lots of this hearsay (on insane hoarding with the effect of a great number # of copies amassed) might likely turn out to be BS if attempted verified

 

A full short box exclusively stuffed with raw AF15 surely seems insane (or somehow a little abnormal a little like these arab Sheiks who has 60-80 kids each

 

 

It might be insane, but G.A.tor said he saw it with his own eyeballs:

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2486186&fpart=654

 

 

 

Which is proof enough for me.

I know a guy in SoCal who has ten copies each of the first ten issues of Daredevil along with a bunch of other Marvel SIlver Age. I have seen some of the copies...they are minimum 9.0 and up. It's not quite the same...but these types of folks are out there. Old school...don't care about grading, but don't want to get rid of their books.

Didn't Gerber once assign AF #15 a Gerber 5? Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's 200-1000 copies in existence. Which, of course, we all know is total BS.

 

Does that mean that the Gerber ratings in general are BS?

 

Gerber gave a rating of 4 to AF15 (1000-2000 books). This is one data point...for one book. It would be difficult to make a call on his work based on that.

In general, as you would expect, any Silver Age book is going to be WAY more common than most books printed before 1954. Silver Age books were only subject to casual neglect, parents tossing them out, and kids losing interest...not the long arm of the law coming down and saying they were evil. So, yes, probably well over a 100K published and the 2000 slabbed number is no surprise. I suspect there are a lot of raw ones out there, but mostly low grade.

And that is my two ¢!

I got curious about CGC data vs. estimated sales for early Walking Dead issues the other day. It's interesting that ~25% of the estimated print run has been graded for issue #1! That is pretty remarkable if you ask me.

 

If you are interested in more on this...click on this link to my blog Walking Dead - A Brief Look at the First Twelve Issues

 

None of this is new news...but I like to see the data all on one chart.

 

Cheers.

 

I appreciate the post, and welcome to the boards! I like data driven articles like yours. Do you have any experience with regression analysis? I have a comic project that may interest you

Not really, but I do have an engineering background and am occasionally called on to perform statistical analysis of different data sets for my day job (especially as it relates to material behavior...creating B basis statistical data for example). If you read any of my other posts, you'll note that I am interested in the notion of rarity in todays comic market. So taking CGC, GPA, Diamond, Overstreet and even Gerber data and putting them all together is a pretty interesting idea.

I got curious about CGC data vs. estimated sales for early Walking Dead issues the other day. It's interesting that ~25% of the estimated print run has been graded for issue #1! That is pretty remarkable if you ask me.

If you are interested in more on this...click on this link to my blog Walking Dead - A Brief Look at the First Twelve Issues

None of this is new news...but I like to see the data all on one chart.

Cheers.